Sentence examples for measuring the drapes from inspiring English sources
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Making premature or unwarranted preparations for victory, especially election to public office
Senator John McCain mocked them for measuring the drapes.
-- will have a chance to start measuring the drapes even before the votes are counted.
"This thing is slipping away from him, and he is still measuring the drapes in Gracie Mansion".
The pundits have written me off... Obama is measuring the drapes... [We're] a few points down, but we're coming back..
Mr. McCain said that "the national media has written us off" and that "Mr. Obama is measuring the drapes".
"The Republicans in Congress are already measuring the drapes," said David Plouffe, who managed the Obama campaign in 2008.
Not only is he not dead, but Mr. Gingrich appears to have measured the drapes for the Oval Office.
"He should talk about why people should vote for him and not go and measure the drapes for Gracie Mansion," Mr. Bloomberg said.
There's even been a man with orange skin stopping by to measure the drapes in my office.
In some ways, the midterm election was the first big event of '08, and has many hopefuls measuring the White House drapes.
With the Normandy coast coming into view through the windows of Mr. Obama's campaign plane as he left France, he smirked when asked to respond to criticism that he was on the cusp of measuring the White House drapes.
